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japala writes "Many of us will have to use our computers even when it's summer. Getting sweaty and frustrated, but you have to get the work done or that last level played. Why not cool your mousing hand down with something as unique as BreezePad. DIY all the way baby!"

Got both their mouse and gamepad. I can't tell when the mouse is on or off unless my hand is on it to feel the breeze. Haven't really done any super hardcore gaming since getting it, so can't comment on it's abiltity to help when gaming or visiting those... moist websites.

I have to say, after having that mouse for 3 months with it slowly becoming worse to unuseable at the end, that it is the worse mouse ever. The noises the fan makes is like the buzzing of an angry hornet. You have to hit it gently to get it to stop. Eventualy, after hitting it too many times, the optics gave out.

While the other lamp-oriented reply may have been aimed at humor, I bring a serious suggestion:

In order to do some renovation, I had to clear everything out of a room, so my gaming computer is sitting in a basement room (right next to kitty litter and the washing machine) where it can be rather cold (minnesota here). The first time I went for a gaming session, I had a desklamp on the table and turned it on. As I felt its warmth an idea popped into my head and now whenever I am using that computer for s

Well, its not just temperature. There's always a little bit of sweating (especially with the nervousness of online gaming) and the fact that plastic doesn't readily absorb water makes it difficult for the water to just evaporate into the air, hence the wetness.

By having a forced air cooling system with ventilation, the palms can stay dryer.

I live in Michigan and the Winters here can get fairly cold. Does anyone know if there is any type of heated keyboard/mouse out there. I have searched relentlesly but haven't been able to find an actual heated keyboard/mouse.

You're not recycling that energy nearly enough unless you've got an Athlon XP2800 laptop. Buy now and Dell will include a voucher for a free ambulance ride to the hospital for your 2nd degree thigh burns

My mousing hand survived Quake, Quake 2, Half-Life, Counterstrike, a smattering of non-FPS games, and (so far), America's Army. However, when it's released, Half-Life 2 may turn out to be the final nail in my carpal tunnel, cooling or no cooling.

I don't see anywhere that the original poster said it would cure ball sweat. In fact, I saw him mention it as an alternative for ball sweat, and, you know, I do think that wiring up my balls with a couple of alligator clips and a string of 9 V batteries probably would make them sweat.

Its basically an industrial strength antiperspirant that plugs your pores.

Uhh, isn't that really bad, health-wise?

Firstly, the obvious: If you're sweating, at least one part of you is probably over-heating, and needs to cool down somehow.

Secondly, perhaps not so obvious:If your sweat glands are operating, but have nowhere to dissipate, there's going to be an accumulation of all sorts of chemicals (salts) in the clogged area, which can produce nasty health problems later on.

Well, for any number of reasons, some people just have overactive sweat glands in certain regions that just keep pumping out sweat regardless of being too hot or not. That's why he uses it for his hands. Putting this stuff on your whole body would be a bad idea. Your body would lose some of its cooling ability no matter where you use it however, though even athletes use anti-perspirant deodourants.

As far as he knows, in his research of the products, nothing has been mentioned of overaccumulation. I'd beli

I couldn't access the New Scientist one, but the latter site merely mentioned parabens (Drysol just contains an aluminum salt, like normal antiperspirants, but stronger), and using antiperspirants on skin that has been recently shaved. (I'm guessing there's a joke there about slashdotters and hairy palms...)

I was shaving this morning, and took a close look at the ingredients of my shaving gel -- "Nivea for men" "Sensitive" shaving gel -- "Chamomile & Vitamin enriched". However "Methylparaben" and "Propylparaben" are listed as ingredients.

I thought back to the studies: parabens found in tumour tissue... shaving nicks getting the chemicals past the skin barrier. Granted, men don't "wear" shaving gel through the day like women do with deodorants. But this gel is going in

I don't see anti-perpirants being phased out around here. In fact, it seems much more difficult than it used to be to find non-anti-perspirant deodorants. I don't use anti-perspirants (but I do use deodorant!) because they irritate my skin.

IANAMD, but I believe that many anti-perspirants contain an aluminum compound; aluminum has been linked to Alzheimer's and breast cancer. That may a bit of a stretch though. I'm not sure what people who wear tin-foil hats made of aluminum should do.

Many slashdoters may think this is a joke, but it is a serious problem for some users. I had a friend at college who's hand would sweat so profusely that he had to put a rag over his mouse to keep it from shorting out. No joke!

Many slashdoters may think this is a joke, but it is a serious problem for some users. I had a friend at college who's hand would sweat so profusely that he had to put a rag over his mouse to keep it from shorting out. No joke!

A lot of RSI injuries are mouse-related. I don't believe an ergonomic setup should include a mouse type device.Myself, I use a Kinesis Classic (it's $200, but worth every penny) and stick to the shell whenever possible. If your windowing environment supports keyboard shortcuts (as any good one should) then you don't even need a mouse. There are exceptions, but even then there's usually a better, less injury-prone device to use (frex, graphic artists are better off using a tablet).

Huh, I can definitely see what they're saying, I get made fun of all the time for having sweaty hands.

However, the lede made me think of summer and electricity. When the weather gets warmer, I'm planning to turn my comp off at sunrise and not turn it back on until it gets dark out. When this year's repeated blackouts happen, I don't want to feel guilty about it, you know?

One of the great RSI myths is that trackballs are better for you than mice. Repetetive movement of your thumb directly causes harm to your wrist in much greater degrees than does movement of a mouse, especially a properly designed mouse like the Quill [quillmouse.com].

The second myth is that wrist rests are good for you, which they are not, under any circumstances. By resting your wrist on a pad, you are forcefully reducing bloodflow, and asking for trouble. Your wrists shouldn't lay on ANYTHING.

It does? My right arm rests on the armrest of my chair. The base of my palm rests on the edge of my desk (or could rest on a gel pad for those so inclined), so only my fingers and thumb tend to be moving as I mouse about. Wrist movement is very minimal. I hate trackballs because then I am using mostly the thumb instead of spreading out the work. 5 digits working in harmony offer much better control than 1. Any of your fingers including the thum

The real issue here is journalistic intergrity. When I pick up my copy of the Guardian and see a review of the new Aston Martin or the little Audi I know the company involved schmoozed the journo to within an inch of ejaculation and lent them the car for the weekend to take their mistress off to Tuscany with.

This pisses people off - but they know the auto section is a big money spinner for the paper and mainly just treat it as a big ad suppliment.

Its not so much that I'm more likely to think it 'a good thing' if an independent party submits - more that it is more worth my time seeing if I DO think it a 'good thing' because of the independent approval already garnered.

Car reviews happen because the car was sent for review - not because the reviewer has 'something to say' or because the car is particularly newsworthy.